Nicolas Cage in oddly empowering Renfield is one of the year’s greatest cinematic pleasures
The Metro says Everyone knows Count Dracula, but what about his downtrodden familiar, Renfield?
This outrageously inventive comedy-horror casts a hilarious #MeToo eye on Dracula’s abusive workplace practises.
For decades, Renfield (Nicholas Hoult) had been locked in eternal servitude to his sadistic master, Dracula (Nicolas Cage), whose most evil power is gas-lighting (and sucking the blood of millions of innocents, obviously).
But cut to the present day and the worm is finally turning. Inspired by an assertive New Orleans cop (Awkwafina), Renfield wakes up to his toxic situation and joins a step programme to help break his co-dependency cycle.